Jim “Mouth” Purol will wear a little extra padding in the seat of his donated work shorts this week.

He’ll be working his gluteus maximus and quadriceps muscles overtime for a good cause and a world record. Purol, who earned the nickname “Mouth” for his penchant to store hundreds of things in his mouth, will attempt to sit in each of the 92,542 seats in the Rose Bowl starting at 10 a.m. today.

If he sits in seats around the clock, he figures he’ll put the finishing touches on his 23rd world record in five days. And he’ll raise money for Outward Bound, an organization geared toward helping underprivileged children connect to the outdoors.

All the time, people justifiably ask Purol if he’s crazy, but he calls himself goal-oriented.

“I challenge myself,” Purol said. “It’s bizarre. I’m one of those weird guys. I have the biggest mouth in the world. I’ve set world records for most cigarettes, cigars, French fries and straws.

“This is a great publicity stunt. Outward Bound needs more public awareness. No one knows about it. Outward Bound is about getting kids out of the inner city and getting them out of gangs and away from their normal friends and making new friends. It’s about teamwork and trying to get them a new focus.”

The Rose Bowl has long been Purol’s focus. Purol said he’s been trying to sit in every seat in the Rose Bowl for 20 years but never had clearance until now. He’s already sat in every seat at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor.

Purol is 56, but he has just 9 percent body fat. He’s a creature of habit and has done the same Gilad aerobic video workout in his home for 18 years. He’s not a workout fanatic as he does weights twice a week and aerobics three times a week. While working out, he’ll get his CNN fix by watching Glenn Beck.

Purol is a nutritional fanatic. In the morning, he eats oatmeal with a scoop of protein powder. He’ll have a sandwich for lunch, and for dinner – his favorite – he’ll have a protein shake of apples, bananas, grapes, nectarines, ice and two scoops of chocolate protein powder.

When he’s busy doing up-downs in the seats in Pasadena, his food will be donated and delivered by The Spot, a catering company in Pasadena. Co-owners Sidney Burgess and Patty Fallahee will feed him fruits and light foods, like chicken sandwiches.

“I’ll probably be cheering him on to slow down,” Burgess said. “I’m going to have to do some climbing of steps, too. I might have to put an apple on one chair and a cracker on another. Maybe I’ll set up his food in sequence and have a beverage at the end.”

Purol, who lives in Anaheim, is a comedian/dj/karaoke expert. But these record-setting feats – like playing in a band under water for two weeks, jumping over a parking meter 5,000 times and crawling 25 miles – are his passion.

He’ll receive motivation from many friends and perhaps the security guards who will also double as witnesses as Purol tries to get in the Guinness World Records book for most seats sat in during a 48-hour period, a new category.

Purol’s game plan is to rarely use the five minutes per hour break that are allotted each hour for “marathon” records. Purol said he hopes to stockpile those breaks and save up for a two-hour nap after two days.

Of course, he’ll have to take a break here or there to use the bathroom.

But he’ll be in the Rose Bowl, so he won’t mind.

“It’s taken me 20 years, and I can’t believe I’m doing it,” Purol said. “This isn’t the biggest stadium, but it’s the granddaddy of them all.”

When friends aren’t around, Purol will search for other things to keep him going, like Will Smith songs or techno music from his iPod, a musical benefit he didn’t have more than two decades ago in Michigan.

He also learned after his sitting stint in Ann Arbor that it’s more efficient to sit section by section rather than row by row. It makes it easier for fans to follow him around, too.

Purol also knows where and when the pain will hit.

“What went out at Michigan was my knees, because you’re twisting and pivoting on your knees,” Purol said.

This isn’t a small production. Ripley’s Believe It or Not is footing the bill for insurance and security.

Security guards will likely be the only witnesses in the wee hours of the morning.

“That’s when you really have to dig deep,” Purol said.

During normal business hours, Shelly Rochester, an environmental restoration team crew leader with Outward Bound, her co-workers and many of the kids will lend support.

“He’s a role model,” said Rochester, who benefited from Outward Bound as a child. “It’s about setting goals and keeping your eye on the goal until you reach it, even if you get blisters on your hands and you have sore quads at the end of the goal. If you fall short, at least you gave 110 percent. That’s what we’re trying to teach kids at Outward Bound.”

Purol is organized and prepared as well. He did a trial run through the stadium a couple of weeks ago, which is where he learned plopping down in each seat (and lifting your feet off the ground, which is a requirement), will take about 3.9 seconds.

The chairbacks are a new twist from his sit-a-thon at Michigan, since those were just bench seats. The arms are involved, too.

One thing Bruin fans should pay attention to is Purol’s post sit-a-thon analysis in which he’ll inform fans which seat is the best in the house. And who would know better than the one man who’s parked his behind in each and every one of them?

Purol wants to do at least one world record-setting event to raise money for charity ever year. Next, he wants to wear as many grocery bags as possible. He’s already tested a few hundred bags here and there.

He’ll have plenty of time to devise schemes to get more bags on his body this week at the Rose Bowl.

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